Project specification involves, firstly, the identification of the technical and business objectives of the project; and secondly, the formulation of a plan and budget appropriate to the timely delivery of these objectives to the customer, taking into account such factors as timing, resourcing and third-party involvement. Project management involves assurance of adherence to the plan and budget...

It is critically important that physicians and physician assistants maintain accurate, timely, and consistent medical records to ensure delivery of high-quality, safe, and integrated medical care. The electronic medical record (EMR) offers a number of potential benefits over the paper medical record. However, as with any innovation, there are challenges and potential hazards in its meaningful u...

Worsening traffic congestion (and higher expectations from our audiences) generates even greater demands for accurate and timely information. Broadcasters cannot respond simply by increasing the number of on-air announcements, in their traditional delivery modes. This would be unacceptable to the public, many of whom already express concern that such announcements are intrusive, repetitive and ...

Introduction Many regenerative medicine products are based on the delivery of biological cells or living tissue constructs to patients. This presents new challenges in product manufacture including a lack of production platforms for controlled scale up and a lack of timely measurement methods for process control (and characterisation of product safety and efficacy). These challenges must be ove...

In this article, we describe the design of two recommender systems (RS) designed to support the smoking cessation process through a mobile application. We plan to use a hybrid RS (content-based, utility-based, and demographic filtering) to tailor health recommendation messages, and a content-based RS to schedule a timely delivery of the message. We also define metrics that we will use to assess...

Conjoined twins are a rare phenomenon, occurring in 1% of monochorionic twin gestation, with an incidence of 1 : 50 000 to 1 : 100 000. Many conjoined twins have abnormalities incompatible with life, so early prenatal diagnosis is very important for optimal management of both pregnancy and delivery. We report a case of dicephalus parapagus conjoined twins, sharing a single heart, diagnosed at 1...

Domain-Specific Languages are used in software engineering in order to enhance quality, flexibility, and timely delivery of software systems, by taking advantage of specific properties of a particular application domain. This survey covers terminology, risks and benefits, examples, design methodologies, and implementation techniques of domain-specific languages as used for the construction and ...

Multimedia applications such as Video On-Demand, Tele-Shopping, or Distance Learning require a storage facility for audio and video data, called video server. All these applications are very demanding in terms of storage capacity, storage bandwidth, and transmission bandwidth. A video server must also meet the requirements that stem from the continuous nature of audio and video. It must guarant...

OBJECTIVE To examine associations between doula care, early breastfeeding outcomes, and breastfeeding duration. DESIGN Prospective cohort. SETTING Regional hospital in northern California. PARTICIPANTS Low-income, full gestation primiparae receiving doula care (n=44) or standard care (n=97). MEASURES Birth outcomes and newborn feeding data obtained from the hospital record. Follow-up in...

the purpose of this paper is to identify the factors of customer satisfaction in export development bank of iran (edbi). in this study, purposive sampling technique was employed to recruit 50 customers classified as government service holder, private service holder and businessmen from all edbi branches. we have done kaiser-meyer-olkin measure of sampling adequacy, bartlett's test of sphericity...